If you happen to be in the Phoenix area on December 20th there is an MSDN event taking place.  The morning consists of developer focused topics including Visual Studio 2008, Astoria, and Silverlight.  You can register for the morning event at this link.  The afternoon is focused on architecture topics and includes Software + Services, Windows Live Platform, and Office Business Applications (which I am presenting).  The afternoon event registration is located at this link.  Hope to see you there.